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Today: You can’t have compassion for others until you’ve had compassion for yourself.
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Sensitize … August 11th, 2020
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Every morning, Mr. Cring takes a personal moment with his friends.
Today: Speaking of my brain–how did this get in? Do I want to keep it?
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Sensitize … August 8th, 2020
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Every morning, Mr. Cring takes a personal moment with his friends.
Today: Humans are heart, soul, mind and strength. Everything begins with the heart–our feelings.
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Sit Down Comedy … August 30th, 2019
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The eyes pop open and the feet are heading toward the floor—it’s the beginning of another day. Right there, in this pivoting moment, you get the message.
A feeling sweeps over your body, informing you where you are and threatening to control your whole living space.
Stop rushing.
With your still feet on the floor, ask yourself a question—out loud, if you’re alone:
How do I feel?
Don’t be surprised if the answer comes back, “Shitty.” Or maybe, “Great.” It could be, “I’m not sure.”
Unfortunately, many people believe it is wrong to run your life by how you feel.
Since educational systems are very similar for all of us, our religions don’t differ that much and our politics bluster controversy but don’t render anything unique, what ends up setting us apart are feelings.
Please do not think you can control your existence through “mind over matter.”
You aren’t a goddamn Ninja and you certainly don’t have a sword.
The best and the worst you’ve got are your emotions. Therefore, speak the question, “How do I feel?” Make it your morning drill.
Then, when you get the answer, ask a second question:
Why do I feel this way?
Sometimes it’s because you watched a scary movie before you went to bed, or you have to pay a bill or take a test. Or maybe you spent your nighttime hours eating like a four-year-old in a candy store.
You will be surprised that the physical, psychological and even spiritual can often hijack your feelings. Identify the reasons.
This is what I refer to as a S.O.D.—a sense of dread.
Something is going to come up that you don’t want to come up and you’re frightened about how it’s going to come down.
It won’t be resolved by a good breakfast. You can’t get the shower hot enough. Playing music in the background has limited possibilities.
Make note:
You aren’t living a life—you are learning to masterfully maneuver your emotions.
And by maneuver, I mean find them, identify their source and open yourself up to other people. Yes, never be afraid, when you emerge from your room in the morning, and someone asks you how you feel, to speak the truth out loud.
“Physically I’m pretty good, mentally I’m a little scattered and for some reason I’m a little nervous.”
This statement is for your benefit–because we gain power and healing as human beings when we confess who we are openly.
So let’s review:
First question: How do I feel?
Second question: Why do I feel this way?
Confession: Based upon what I know thus far, these are my beginning sensations today.
Candidly, if you try to ignore your starting feeling, you will fail the day. On the other hand, if you identify the feeling, you will receive a much greater sense of well-being. Once you know how you really feel, have figured out the source of it, and you’ve confessed it out loud—either to yourself or someone else—then you’re ready for the door.
Sometimes it’s a door in, and sometimes a door out.
But many of us ruin our morning, still bleary-eyed and uncertain. We’re not maneuvering our emotions, and we miss the door. But if you know how you feel and you’ve identified where it came from and you’ve confessed your profile, then you’ll see the door in or the door out.
It’s probably one of the most exciting things—and one of the most unexplainable happenings in our lives.
A way is made for us if we are ready to see the door.
Then, once you see the it and you have yourself primed, enter the door. Change, adapt, include, evolve. When you do these things, you find yourself in greater unity with the world around you instead of going into situations kicking and screaming, blaming others and eventually laying it at the doorstep of God.
So find the door in or out, then change—happy that you’ve alerted yourself. And finally you end the day grateful.
There is a much better chance that you will wake up the next morning feeling better if you end your day grateful.
It’s not luck. It’s not chaos. And by the way, God does not have a wonderful plan for your life.
This is your space and your doing. If you want to do it with power, begin each day with, “How do I feel and why do I feel that way?”
Then confess, look for the door in or out, change, and move toward the solution.
And finish it off by giving a big chuckle in gratitude.
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Jesonian–Troubling (Part 7)… August 12th, 2017
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Troubling.
To see disciples of Jesus line up like sheep, with astrologers and superstitious, ignorant practitioners of religion, to pray their way to a blessing, is truly troublesome.
It is the byproduct of a gigantic misconception: God is in control.Nothing could be further from the truth.
We are told that Jesus came to Earth to give us the power to become the sons of God. He envisioned a church that was fired up to tear down the gates of hell:
- More than conquerors
- Salt of the Earth
- Light of the world
- Doing greater things
- Pursuing the perfection they see in their Father
He never dreamed that those who chose to take up his cross would end up helpless, fearful, bigoted and hog-tied to tradition.
It is pitiful to see churches worshipping a God they believe has power, but selfishly refuses to impart any of that gift to His children.
When will we start teaching the truth?
Our lives do not spring from the soul. We are not mentally ignited. Nor will stimulation of our flesh make us content.
We are heart creatures. Out of the abundance of our heart we will speak. Out heart is our passion, our feelings, our sentiment.
Here’s the way Jesus intended it to be:
We start with the heart. This is simply what we feel. It does not need to be right–it just needs to be truthful. Having found the confidence to share our heart gives us the boldness to believe.
This leads to our soul. Our soul benefits us by teaching us how things work–both the tenderness of the Father and the practices of Mother Nature.
Once we’ve allowed ourselves to be students of the planet and the love of God, we’re ready to take our brain and see what we can do. Not what we wish we could do, but the ability within us. So we learn to be contributors instead of complainers.
And then we take this magnificent body–our strength–and go out and do it well. For as we run the first mile, we anticipate the second. We come prepared.
This is the teaching of Jesus.
The barbaric notion that God plays with human lives as the devil taunts them may be the foundation for other religions, but it is spiritually and intellectually unacceptable in the Jesonian.
The Jesonian is when we realize that our heart–what we feel–gives credence to our soul, where we learn how things work. This renews our minds, to find out what we can do, and then we take our energy to do it well.
Such a unity creates healthy human beings–instead of faltering followers.
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Dear Man/Dear Woman: A Noteworthy Conversation … April 9th, 2016
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Dear Man: So what did they tell you?
Dear Woman: They told me that women are beautiful, but very emotional. What did they tell you?
Dear Man: I was told that men are handsome and strong.
Dear Woman: Well, since “beautiful” and “handsome” are literally in the eye of the beholder, that leaves emotional and strong.
Dear Man: That it does. And what do those two words mean?
Dear Woman: Well, emotional means having lots of feelings.
Dear Man: And for simplicity, strong means having lots of muscles.
Dear Woman: So I guess the thought is, when feelings are needed, women are handy and in everything else, men have the edge because they can lift the weights.
Dear Man: Here’s my question–can anybody achieve anything without emotion? Can the football team win the national championship without great feelings and energy to propel them?
Dear Woman: And can anything be accomplished as a human being without utilizing strength? For instance, can a woman actually go through the difficulty of puberty, struggles in the economy, birthing and raising children–without possessing tremendous physical fortitude?
Dear Man: Of course not. But we’re led to believe that I’m emotional and you are strong. So if you decide I’m overly emotional, you can just beat the crap out of me.
Dear Woman: Well, I personally wouldn’t do that…
Dear Man: I know that. But deep in the recesses of your primeval brain is the notion that you could take me down.
Dear Woman: And equally deep in your evolution is the information that you may only be able to get what you want by crying and expressing your feelings.
Dear Man: So what’s the truth?
Dear Woman: Well, that’s easy. None of us can live without emotion and strength. To be a human being, you must know how to tap your emotions, and be able to be strong in the hour of trial.
Dear Man: Exactly. So maybe the problem is the words we use.
Dear Woman: I’m listening.
Dear Man: What I mean is that emotion without purpose and direction is useless. If you add purpose it becomes passion.
Dear Woman: And strength without the willingness to include endurance is just macho energy because it doesn’t hang in there and last to the end. So what I’m saying is that an emotional and strong football team doesn’t win the game.
Dear Man: No, it’s a passionate team–one with great endurance–that lasts through the fourth quarter and takes the day.
Dear Woman: Do you realize, there’s no Bible for the boys and another for the girls. There’s no Constitution for the men and another one for women. In our higher forms of reasoning, we already understand that we need to be human beings and not just genders.
Dear Man: Well said. So maybe the best thing we can do is teach our children–and maybe ourselves–that women are not emotional and men strong, but instead, that human beings are learning to use their passion with endurance.
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Dear Man/Dear Woman: A Noteworthy Conversation … March 12th, 2016
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Dear Man: I hope you don’t mind me sending along my ideas and feelings in the form of this note. I just didn’t want to sit down and have a face-to-face discussion, get interrupted and lose my train of thought.
Even though I see us making gradual progress to understand one another, I feel there is one large hurdle that we just can’t seem to get over.
You think I’m weak.
It’s not your fault. You were taught to do it. All the television shows portray women as having great intelligence, but falling apart under pressure.
You and I were born practically equal.
For the first ten years of our lives, our bodies were almost the same. I ran as fast as you, and you cried like a girl when you fell down and skinned your knee. Then the natural order–Mother Nature–came along and changed things to make sure that our species would be able to have a mother and a father to push the plan ahead.
I got estrogen, which gave me breasts, a period and hormones of sensitivity. You got testosterone, which gave you balls and a single-mindedness toward single-handedly procreating the species.
I no longer could run as fast as you could.
I couldn’t lift as much weight.
A few days every month, I found myself nearly out of commission due to my menstrual cycle.
At that point, you looked upon me as weaker.
It infuriated me. I could still think, feel and react with as much smarts as you, but because of my lesser muscle mass and need to mother children, I felt that I lost respect in your eyes.
I hate that.
It seems ridiculous to me that we view one another based upon the conditions of our genetic responsibility instead of realizing that we are both human beings and share almost everything in common.
I am tired of being the weakling–but I’m also tired of apologizing for having an emotional side which you may or may not understand.
So you try to be sensitive to my lack. That can make you consider me the weaker sex, which can end up with me being nothing more than “the little woman.”
Do you understand? I can’t be just “the little woman” and stay sane. I have to be more than a birthing chamber that ovulates three or four days a month.
I yearn for the time when we were children and had a childlike appreciation for each other. There were no “girl baseball teams” and “boy baseball teams.” We played all the games together.
I don’t want to be your weakling.
I don’t want to struggle to get respect because I’m seen as inferior. I don’t want to be viewed as bitchy and pushy.
Do you understand what I’m saying? Can you fathom how horrible you would feel if you were deemed second-rate? Why would it feel any different for me?
I thank you for reading this.
I’m not trying to blame you–I’m just curious if you can comprehend my heart.
Can we escape the futility of separating the sexes into Mommy and Daddy?
You don’t need to respond, but if you do, be candid and not afraid to share you heart.
I was thinking of you.
Woman
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